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Alfonso Cuarón on His Twisty, 5.5-Hour Thriller ‘Disclaimer,’ Casting Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, and Sex in Cinema

Alfonso Cuarón describes the long and complicated process of bringing his Apple TV+ series 'Disclaimer' to screens at the Toronto Film Festival.

And there were precedents that he points to in cinema history for this kind of sprawling, narratively dense work; “Reds,” “1900,” “Fanny and Alexander,” “Once Upon a Time in America,” even “Twin Peaks” served as inspirations for what he was hoping to pull off. Cuarón’s series moves backwards and forwards and time, following Catherine as she grapples with a crisis that could destroy everything she’s built, and a past encounter with the deceased son of Kline’s character, Stephen Brigstocke, a crusty and conniving widower with a grudge. For Stephen, the director was looking to cast “someone unexpected.” When Blanchett proposed Kline, Cuarón thought back to the vast range the actor displayed in projects as diverse as “Sophie’s Choice,” “The Big Chill” and “A Fish Called Wanda.”

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